Continuing to live or exist, despite an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances
Survival
A new organism that results from sexual or asexual reproduction
Offspring
A change or alteration to a living organisms DNA
Mutation
What is the female reproductive organ of a plant?
Pistil
A specific form of a gene that comes in pairs
Allele
An individual who has 2 different alleles for a gene (Gg)
Heterozygous
Genetic material that comes from both parents is what type of reproduction?
Sexual Reproduction
What is a threadlike structure that contains genetic information that controls the traits?
Chromosome
What is the male reproductive organ of a plant?
Stamen
Fill in the following punnett square
RR Rr
Rr rr
A specific characteristic of an individual
Trait
The act of moving pollen grains from the male anther to the female stigma is called....?
Pollination
Adenine is always paired with?
Thymine
What number represents the pistil on this diagram?
Number 5
What percentage of this punnett square will be homozygous dominant?
25%
An inherited trait is controlled by.....?
DNA
The process by which organisms generate a new individual of the same species
Reproduction
If a sexually reproducing organism has 28 chromosomes in its body cells, how many chromosomes did it inherit from each parent?
14
Which part of the plant is responsible for attracting pollinators by sight due to their colors?
Petal
A dog who inherits a gene for curly hair and a gene for straight hair ends up with curly hair. What does that tell you about curly hair?
Curly hair is dominant
A learned (acquired) trait is controlled by .....?
Environment
The separation of the body into two new bodies, when the genetic material is duplicated.....(think of bacteria)
Binary Fission
What town does Mrs. Rachel live in?
Carson
How do plants reproduce?
both sexually and asexually
A rabbit has black fur(B) which is dominant to white fur (b). If an offspring ends up having homozygous recessive fur color, what GENOTYPE would that be?
bb